On 2012-05-10 16:48 +0200, Ilya Razenshteyn wrote:
> I have Debian Testing. On May, 9 I made an "apt-get dist-upgrade",
> which did the following updates:
> [ ... ]
> 2012-05-09 09:17:41 upgrade libcairo2:amd64 1.10.2-7 1.12.2-1
> 2012-05-09 09:17:42 upgrade libcairo-gobject2:amd64 1.10.2-7 1.12.2-1
You probably want to revert those to the 1.10.2-7 versions. Get them
from snapshot.debian.org if the packages are no longer in your apt
cache.
> As a result, in both Iceweasel and Chromium some parts of text are
> badly screwed: instead of usual fonts, there is a bunch of chaotic
> dots.
> Also, evince screws up some pdfs generated by latex, which it didn't
> before. Is this the known issue?
Yes, bug #666468¹. If you're using the nouveau driver, downgrading
libcairo* is your best bet. No solution is in sight, unfortunately. :-(
Sorry for the bad news,
Sven
¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666468